Greetings everyone, and thank you for clicking on my post!
I don't have much role play experience, I did a bit of (possibly ultra) light role play (compared to what people do here on Istaria) in SWG, but nothing serious. The fact that I am a big-time PvP gamer and Istaria is my first PvE/non-PvP centered game might be why.
Ever since I've joined Istaria/Order, I've heard it said that there are many different styles of role play that the people of Order enjoy. Now, I have the general idea on what this means, but I have to admit, I don't know anything defined about it.
So, my question is: What are the different styles of role play on Order? And how do they differ?
To give you an example of my limited knowledge of role play, I only know of two-types of role play (that I've witnessed on Order) and I'm pretty sure I call them the wrong names, and I'm pretty sure I've seen more than just two styles.
These styles I've mentioned are: Forum-post style role play. To me, this is role play similar to that you'll find on a role play forum. That is: the people role playing will type out post/lines/whatever you wish to call them of a decent length, essentially telling others everything they need to know about their action, to the point of giving people insight into their thoughts or giving reasons behind their actions. Here is a rough example that I've completely made up just now, and so it will probably be horrible, but here we go, "The young hatchling glides down into the crowded valley, landing with a hard thump in a small clearing devoid of any dragons. Almost immediately after he lands, he stretches out his small (compared to the other dragons), dark green body, decorated with many swirls of light, almost lime green, much like a cat would.
After he is done stretching, he lifts his head up high and stares across the small valley, observing all the dragons and wondering why there are so many of them gathered here."
Something similar to that, usually written a lot better than what I did and with more detail.
The other kind is what I call "Spontaneous in-person role play" which is what I do, if I rp at all. I know this is the wrong name for it, but.... I guess it could also be called light role play? Ultra Light? I'm not sure. Anyway, in this "style", a person chooses not to do any kind of planned out role play, or any kind of role play over world-wide channels (that is, chat channels that can be read by anyone in the game from any location), but rather only in the public/area/"Main" chat channel. In this kind of style, the person (usually) doesn't choose to have any kind of epic drama to role play, but rather role plays as their character inside the game world quite simply.
Anyways, as you can see my knowledge of role play is quite limited, so, please help me out Thank you in advance.